Born on this day – Joyce Randolph:

Joyce Randolph

Actress

October 21, 1924 – January 13, 2024

Credits:

Everything's Jake (2000); Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991); Honeybloopers (1989); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1957); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Modern Romances (1955); The Mail Story (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Plainclothesman (1953–1954); Short Short Dramas (1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); I Cover Times Square (1950); The Clock (1950); Famous Jury Trials (1950); Buck Rogers (1950); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Gander Sauce (1944).

Born on this day – Robert Webber:

Robert Webber

Actor

October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989

Born on this day – Doris Grau:

Doris Grau

Actress

Script supervisor

October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995

Credits:

A Rage to Live (1965); A Touch of Scandal (1984); All Is Forgiven (1986); Angel Dusted (1981); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); Babe (1995); Bare Essence (1983); Blue (1968); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Caveman (1981); CBS Summer Playhouse (1989); Cheers (1983–1987); Clay Pigeon (1971); Clue (1985); Coldblooded (1995); Coward of the County (1981); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969); Frasier (1995); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Good Advice (1993); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Heroes (1977); How Do I Love Thee? (1970); Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983); King Kong (1976); Making It (1971); Marie (1985); Miracles (1986); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); Monty (1994); My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985); No Way Out (1987); Phenom (1994); Pieces of Dreams (1970); Point Blank (1967); Quarterback Princess (1983); Rhinoceros (1974); Ruthless People (1986); Seinfeld (1989); Sibs (1991); Sleeper (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Tarawa Beachhead (1958); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Champ (1979); The Critic (1994–1995); The Distinguished Gentleman (1992); The Forgotten Man (1971); The Frisco Kid (1979); The George Carlin Show (1994); The Hunter (1980); The Klansman (1974); The Last Day (1975); The Million Dollar Duck (1971); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981); The Ransom (1977); The Shadow Riders (1982); The Simpsons (1991–1997); The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974); The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990); The White Shadow (1978); They Came to Cordura (1959); You Take the Kids (1991).

Born on this day – Ed Wood:

Ed Wood

Director

Actor

Writer

October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978

Born on this day – Barbara Kelly:

Barbara Kelly

Actress

Writer

Producer

October 5, 1924 – January 15, 2007

Credits:

A Tale of Five Women (1951); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Alice Through the Looking Box (1960); Alien Attack (1976); An Evening at Home with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly (1951); Armchair Theatre (1957); B and B (1968); Barbara with Braden (1953); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Blankety Blank (1979–1980); Call My Bluff (1969–1970); Carissima (1950); Castle in the Air (1952); Celebrity Squares (1976); Comedy Playhouse (1968); Criss Cross Quiz (1957–1967); Cynthia Payne's House of Cyn (1995); Dateline Britain (1959); Dee Time (1969); Give Us a Clue (1980); Glad Tidings! (1953); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Hawaii Five-O (1978–1980); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1956); Jet Storm (1959); Jubilee Dinner of the Concert Artistes' Association (1957); Kaleidoscope (1950); Kelly's Eye (1957); Let Him Have It (1991); Love in Pawn (1953); Lust of a Eunuch (1977); Magnum, P.I. (1981); New Faces (1974); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); No Hiding Place (1962); Not a Word (1970); Parkinson (1975 / 1978); Password (1973–1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pearl (1978); Punchlines (1983); Read All About It (1977); Russell Harty Plus (1972); Shadow of the Tree (1951); Space: 1999 (1975–1976); Sunday Story (1961–1967); Television: The Magic Rectangle - An Anatomy of the TV Personality (1986); The Biz Quiz (1966); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1965–1967); The Flying Fontaines (1959); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Long Christmas Dinner (1949); The Male Animal (1956); The Paul Daniels Magic Show (1982); The Pyramid Game (1982); The Rolling Stones (1960); The Sweepstakes Game (1976); The Texan (1960); This Is Your Life (1973–1991); Those Wonderful TV Times (1977); Treasure on Pelican (1951); Tribute to Trevor Howard (1986); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); We Beg to Differ (1951); What's My Line? (1951–1984); Where in the World? (1973); Wogan (1986–1987).

Born on this day – Marina Berti:

Marina Berti

Actress

September 29, 1924 – October 29, 2002

Born on this day – Gail Russell:

Gail Russell

Actress

September 21, 1924 – August 26, 1961

Born on this day – Collin Wilcox:

Collin Wilcox

Writer

September 21, 1924 – July 12, 1996

Credits:

Books:

A Death Before Dying (1990); Aftershock (1975); Bernhardt's Edge (1988); Calculated Risk (1995); Dark House, Dark Road (1982); Dead Aim (1971); Dead Center (1992); Doctor, Lawyer.... (1976); Except for the Bones (1991); Find Her a Grave (1993); Full Circle (1994); Hiding Place (1973); Hire a Hangman (1991); Long Way Down (1975); Mankiller (1980); McCloud (1973); Night Games (1986); Power Plays (1979); Silent Witness (1990); Spellbinder (1981); Stalking Horse (1982); Swallow's Fall (1987); Switchback (1993); The Black Door (1967); The Disappearance (1970); The Faceless Man (1975); The Lonely Hunter (1969); The New Mexico Connection (1974); The Pariah (1988); The Third Figure (1967); The Third Victim (1977); The Watcher (1978); Twospot (1978); Victims (1985).

Born on this day – Lauren Bacall:

Lauren Bacall

Actress

September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014

Born on this day – Scott Brady:

Scott Brady

Actor

September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985

Born on this day – Sylvia Miles:

Sylvia Miles

Actress

September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019

Born on this day – Jane Greer:

Jane Greer

Actress

September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001

Born on this day – Leonard Rosenman:

Leonard Rosenman

Composer

Musician

September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008

Born on this day – Joan Aiken:

Joan Aiken

Writer

September 4, 1924 – January 4, 2004

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977); A Bundle of Nerves (1976); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Children's Literary Treasury (2022); A Cluster of Separate Sparks / aka The Butterfly Picnic (1972); A Creepy Company (1993); A Fit of Shivers (1990); A Foot in the Grave (1989); A Ghostly Gallery (2023); A Goose on Your Grave (1987); A Handful of Gold (1995); A Harp of Fishbones (1972); A Necklace of Raindrops (1968); A Small Pinch of Weather (1969); A Touch of Chill (1979); A Whisper in the Night (1981); All and More / aka All You've Ever Wanted (1953); All But a Few (1974); Arabel and Mortimer Stories (2019); Arabel's Raven (1972); Armitage, Armitage Fly Away Home (1968); Bestiary! (1985); Black Hearts in Battersea (1964); Blackground (1989); Bone and Dream (2002); Bridle the Wind (1983); Castle Barebane (1976); Chilling Christmas Tales (1992); Christmas Forever (1993); Cold Shoulder Road (1995); Come Flee with Me (1978); Conrad Aiken, Our Father (1989); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dangerous Games (1999); Dark Interval / aka Hate Begins at Home (1967); Dead Man's Lane (1996); Deception / aka If I Were You (1987); Dido and Pa (1986); Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972); Drabble II - Double Century (1990); Eliza's Daughter (1994); Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes (1984); Emma Watson (1996); Escaped Black Mamba (1973); Fantastic Fables (2023); Fantasy Stories (1994); Fantasy Stories (1996); Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (1984); Foul Matter (1983); Ghostly Beasts (2002); Ghostly Haunts (1994); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Girl's Choice (1969); Give Yourself a Fright (1989); Go Saddle the Sea (1977); Gothic (2004); Haunting Christmas Tales (1991); Helena and the Wild Man (2000); Horror Stories (1988); In Thunder's Pocket (2001); Is / aka Is Underground (1992); ise Girl (2000); Jane Fairfax (1990); Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000); Last Movement (1977); Mansfield Revisited (1984); Mice and Mendelson (1978); Midnight Is a Place (1974); Midwinter Nightingale (2003); Moon Cake (1998); More Arabel and Mortimer (2019); More Than You Bargained for (1955); Morningquest (1992); Mortimer and Arabel (1992); Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979); Mortimer Says Nothing (1985); Mortimer's Bread Bin / aka The Bread Bin (1974); Mortimer's Cross (1983); Mortimer's Mine (1995); Mortimer's Pocket (1994); Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1982); Mortimer's Tie (1976); Mystery Stories (1996); Mystifying (2008); New Terrors 1 (1980); New Terrors Omnibus (1985); Night Fall (1969); Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966); Nightshade (2000); Not What You Expected (1974); Over the Rainbow (1983); Past Eight O'Clock (1986); Psychos (2012); Return to Harken House / aka Voices (1988); Scaremongers (1998); Scary! (1998); Secret City (1997); Serve Me Stefan (2000); Shadows and Moonshine (1990); Shivers for Christmas (1995); Silent Night (2002); Silver Jackanory (1991); Simply the Best (1996); Siren Stories (2023); Skin of the Soul (1990); Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970); Snow Horse (2004); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2002); Song of Mat and Ben (2000); Spellbound (2007); Strangeness (1977); Street (1978); Tale of a One-Way Street (1978); The 10th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1969); The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967); The Angel Inn (1976); The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 (2009); The Cockatrice Boys (1996); The Crystal Crow (1967); The Cuckoo Tree (1971); The Dark Side (2007); The Embroidered Sunset (1970); The Erl King's Daughter (1988); The Faithless Lollybird (1977); The Far Forests (1977); The Fifth Armada Ghost Book (1973); The Fifth Ghost Book (1969); The Five-Minute Marriage (1977); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966); The Fortune Hunters (1965); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Gift Giving (2016); The Girl From Paris / aka The Young Lady from Paris (1982); The Green Flash (1971); The Haunting of Lamb House (1987); The Jewel Seed (1997); The Kingdom and the Cave (1960); The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971); The Kingfisher Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2004); The Kitchen Warriors (1983); The Last Slice of the Rainbow (1985); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995); The Midnight Moropus (1993); The Monkey's Wedding (2011); The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974); The Moon's Revenge (1987); The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1982); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The People in the Castle (2016); The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds (1996); The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997); The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991); The Scream (2002); The Serial Garden (2008); The Shadow Guests (1980); The Shoemaker's Boy (1991); The Silence of Herondale (1964); The Sixth Ghost Book: Book 2 (1970); The Skin Spinners (poems) (1976); The Smile of the Stranger (1977); The Spiral Stair (1979); The Stolen Lake (1981); The Teeth of the Gale / aka In the Teeth of the Gale (1988); The Tenth Ghost Book (1974); The Tinker's Curse (1978); The Way to Write for Children (1981); The Weeping Ash / aka The Lightning Tree (1980); The Whispering Mountain (1968); The Windscreen Weepers (1969); The Winter Sleepwalker (1991); The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962); The Wooden Dragon (2004); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 (2012); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Youngest Miss Ward (1998); Triangles (1973); Trouble with Product X / aka Beware of the Bouquet (1966); Up the Chimney Down (1984); Voices in an Empty House (1975); Weather Witches and Wise Women (2023); Winterthing (1972).

Movies and television:

Black Hearts in Battersea (1995–1996); Jackanory (1968–1992); Jackanory Playhouse (1977–1979); Joan Aiken (1969); L'ultima fetta di arcobaleno (2023); Midnight Is a Place (1977–1978); Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986); Mortimer & Arabel (1993–1994); Night Gallery / Segment: Marmalade Wine (1971); Rainy Story (1988); Read All About It (1974); Shadows (1976–1978); Television Theater (1998); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989).

Born on this day – Peggy Ryan:

Peggy Ryan

Dancer

Actress

August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004

Credits:

A Night at the Troc (1939); All Ashore (1953); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Babes on Swing Street (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Chip Off the Old Block (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Fun on the Run (1949); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls' Town (1942); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1976); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Here's Hollywood (1961); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1985); Just Off Broadway (1955); Men in Her Diary (1945); Miss Annie Rooney (1942); Mister Big (1943); On Stage Everybody (1945); Oysters and Muscles (1948); Patrick the Great (1944); Pleasure Palace (1980); Private Buckaroo (1942); Sailor's Lady (1940); Shamrock Hill (1949); She Married a Cop (1939); ShirleyMania (2002); Simon & Simon (1983); Songs for Sale (1952); Stage Show (1954); Star of the Family (1951); That's the Spirit (1945); The Betty White Show (1954); The Eyes Have It (1952); The Flying Irishman (1939); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Mickey Mouse Club (1956); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1952); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930); The Women Men Marry (1937); There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); This Is Show Business (1956); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Top of the Town (1937); Universal Musical Short 3655: Singin' and Swingin' (1950); Val Parnell's Startime (1956); Varsity Vanities (1940); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – William Marshall:

William Marshall

Actor

Director

Opera singer

August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003

Born on this day – Evan S. Connell:

Evan S. Connell

Writer

August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Long Desire (1979); American Short Story Masterpieces (1987); At the Crossroads (1965); Deus Lo Volt! (2000); Double Honeymoon (1976); El Dorado and Other Pursuits (2002); Francisco Goya: A Life (2003); Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008); Mr. Bridge (1969); Mrs. Bridge (1959); Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1962); Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012); Points for a Compass Rose (1973); Son of the Morning Star (1984); St. Augustine's Pigeon (1980); The Alchymist's Journal (1991); The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957); The Aztec Treasure House (2001); The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957); The Collected Stories (1995); The Connoisseur (1974); The Diary of a Rapist (1966); The Patriot (1958); The White Lantern (1980).

Movies and television:

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); Son of the Morning Star (1991).

Born on this day – Joseph Cates:

Joseph Cates

Director

Producer

Writer

August 10, 1924 – October 10, 1998

Born on this day – Martha Hyer:

Martha Hyer

Actress

August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014

Credits:

A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1952); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1977); Battle Hymn (1957); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Bewitched (1965); Bikini Beach (1964); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Born to Kill (1947); Branded (1965); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Catch As Catch Can (1967); Climax! (1958); Crossplot (1969); Cry Vengeance (1954); Cuernavaca en primavera / Segment: El nido de amor (1966); Desire in the Dust (1960); Down Three Dark Streets (1954); Family Affair (1967); Fireside Theatre (1953); First Men in the Moon (1964); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); Francis in the Navy (1955); Frisco Tornado (1950); Geisha Girl (1952); Gun Smugglers (1948); Here's Hollywood (1960); House of 1,000 Dolls (1967); Houseboat (1958); Ice Palace (1960); It Takes a Thief (1969); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kelly and Me (1956); Kiss of Fire (1955); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); La mujer de otro (1967); Lucky Me (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); McCloud (1974); Mister Cory (1957); Mistress of the World (1960); My Man Godfrey (1957); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1972); Once Upon a Horse... (1958); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Oriental Evil (1951); Outcast of Black Mesa (1950); Paris Follies of 1956 (1955); Paris Holiday (1958); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); Playhouse 90 (1958); Private Secretary (1953); Public Defender (1954); Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964); Racket Squad (1952); Rawhide (1959); Red Sundown (1956); Riders to the Stars (1954); Rooster Cogburn (1975); Roughshod (1949); Route 66 (1961); Rustlers (1949); Sabrina (1954); Salt Lake Raiders (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Showdown at Abilene (1956); So Big (1953); Some Came Running (1958); Some May Live (1967); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Best of Everything (1959); The Beverly Hillbillies (1966); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Chase (1966); The Clay Pigeon (1949); The Day of the Wolves (1971); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Deputy (1960); The Deputy (1960); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Happening (1967); The Judge Steps Out (1948); The Kangaroo Kid (1950); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The Lawless (1950); The Locket (1946); The Lone Ranger (1950); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963); The Name of the Game (1968); The Night of the Grizzly (1966); The Oscars (2015); The Right Approach (1961); The Scarlet Spear (1954); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); The Unexpected (1952); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Virginian (1970); The Woman on the Beach (1947); The Young Lawyers (1971); Thunder Mountain (1947); Trouble on the Trail (1954); War Italian Style (1965); Wild Stallion (1952); Wives and Lovers (1963); Wyoming Renegades (1955); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Yukon Gold (1952); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Ella Jenkins:

Ella Jenkins

Singer

Writer

Composer

August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

A Life of Song (2011); A Long Time (1970 / 1992 / 2024); Adventures in Rhythm (1959 / 1989 / 1992); African-American Folk Rhythms (1960 / 1998); And One And Two & Other Songs for Pre-School and Primary Children (1971 / 1990); Call-and-Response Rhythmic Group Singing (1957 / 1990); Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends (2017); cELLAbration: A Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2004); Come Dance by the Ocean (1991); Counting Games & Rhythms for the Little Ones (1969 / 1990); Early Early Childhood Songs (1982 / 1996); Ella Jenkins and A Union of Friends Pulling Together (1999); For the Family (1991); Get Moving with Ella Jenkins (2012); Growing Up With Ella Jenkins (1976 / 1990); Holiday Times (1996); Hopping Around from Place to Place Vol. 1 (1983 / 1999 / 2015); Hopping Around from Place to Place Vol. 2 (1983 / 2000 / 2015); I Know the Colors of the Rainbow (1981); Jambo and Other Call and Response Songs and Chants (1974 / 1996); Little Johnny Brown with Ella Jenkins and Girls and Boys from "Uptown" (Chicago) (1972 / 1990); Live at the Smithsonian (1991); Looking Back and Looking Forward (1981); More Multicultural Children's Songs (2014); Multicultural Children's Songs (1995); My Street Begins at My House (1971 / 1989); Nursery Rhymes: Rhyming & Remembering for Young Children & for Older Girls & Boys with Special Language Needs (1974 / 1990); 123s and ABCs (2014); Play Your Instruments & Make a Pretty Sound (1968 / 1994); Rhythm & Game Songs for Little Ones (1964 / 1991); Rhythms of Childhood (1970 / 1989); Seasons for Singing (1970 / 1990); Sharing Cultures With Ella Jenkins (2003); Songs and Rhythms From Near and Far (1964 / 1997); Songs Children Love To Sing (1996); Songs, Rhythms And Chants for the Dance (1977 / 1982 / 2000); This is Rhythm (1961 / 1994); This-A-Way That-A-Way (1973 / 1989 / 1992); This-a-Way-That-a-Way (1961 / 1989); Travellin' with Ella Jenkins: – A Bilingual Journey (1979 / 1989); We Are America's Children (1976); You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song (1966 / 1989).

Movies and television:

Barney & Friends (1993); Cellabration Live! a Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2007); Fargo (2020); Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2022); Kidding (2018); Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1974–1992); Roadtrip Nation (2012); Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2024).